Portable writer/reader is missing the write and read UTF array which exis at Java API (https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/blob/master/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/hazelcast/nio/serialization/PortableReader.java#L191 https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/blob/master/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/hazelcast/nio/serialization/PortableWriter.java#L208)